Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.

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From: Martin Ebourne
Subject: Re: Delete a file THAT big? Surely you are joking.
Date: 16:20 on 18 Dec 2006
Yossi Kreinin <yossi.kreinin@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:

> S=E9bastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:
>>>
>>> Want to clean up your disk? Look for small files, the ones you can remov=
e.
>>
>>
>> But did you trunc the file before removing it?
>>
>
> I removed it using rm. I don't know what you mean.

Most likely the files were still open anyway. Did you make sure that =20
the processes had closed them? (using lsof and/or fuser).

I've had plenty of big files on ext2/3 and it does delete them.

Cheers,

Martin.
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